Jean Lartéguy

Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort – 23 February 2011) was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier.

Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario of torture in his 1960 novel ''Les centurions''. Provided by Wikipedia